In no particular order, here are my favorites:
"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends."
"You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
(on being challenged to use the word Horticulture in a sentence)
"I wish I could drink like a lady
I can take one or two at the most
Three and I'm under the table
Four and I'm under the host"
"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
"That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say "No" in any of them."
"That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
"Look at him, a rhinestone in the rough."
"Too fucking busy, and vice versa."
(Reply to her editor who was pestering her for belated work while she was on her honeymoon)
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
Anybody have additional favorites?
"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends."
"You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
(on being challenged to use the word Horticulture in a sentence)
"I wish I could drink like a lady
I can take one or two at the most
Three and I'm under the table
Four and I'm under the host"
"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
"That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say "No" in any of them."
"That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
"Look at him, a rhinestone in the rough."
"Too fucking busy, and vice versa."
(Reply to her editor who was pestering her for belated work while she was on her honeymoon)
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
Anybody have additional favorites?
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Wed, August 24, 2005 - 4:29 PM"I like to think of my shining tombsone. It gives me, as it were, something to live for."
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Wed, August 24, 2005 - 8:03 PMI've always enjoyed the logic of this one:
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Wed, August 24, 2005 - 9:35 PMVery nice. I wonder if any depressed people have been brought back from the edge by the earthy common sense of these lines.
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Sat, August 27, 2005 - 8:32 PMabout Katharine Hepburn's acting:
"She ran the whole gamut of emotions from A to B."
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Sun, August 28, 2005 - 6:02 PM
If all the sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the least suprised. -
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Thu, September 1, 2005 - 8:51 PM"Girlies make passes
at men who are asses."
Oops, no that wasn't DP, that was me!
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Fri, September 2, 2005 - 5:19 AM<<(DP said the thing about the men and the glasses, and whatnot.)>>
Hmm. I like puzzles. Let me work with this. . .
Girls who need glasses like men with fat asses?
Men who need glasses like girls with fat asses?
Girls who are asses avoid men who wear glasses?
Men who are asses avoid girls who wear glasses?
Girls who wear glasses like men with tight asses?
Men who wear glasses like girls with round asses?
Girls who wear glasses avoid men who are asses?
Men who wear glasses avoid girls who are asses?
Girls seldom make passes at men with fat asses?
Men seldom make passes at girls with fat asses?
Girls seldom make passes at men who are asses?
Girls seldom make passes at men who wear glasses?
No. None of those work. I'll have to Google it.
Ah, yes. Here it is. Dorothy said "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." -
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Fri, September 2, 2005 - 7:45 PMExcellent!!!
(Mine was perhaps funnier in it's original context, where it was my response to being razzed for having a crush on a fat-bastard old punk creep.)
:)
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Tue, September 6, 2005 - 2:18 AM
You have a crush on me? -
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Tue, September 6, 2005 - 12:25 PM"If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are."
"I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table / Four and I'm under the host"
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Tue, September 6, 2005 - 12:27 PM"There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it." -
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Fri, September 9, 2005 - 11:09 AMI've always been a big fan of:
There is nothing more fun than a man!
He was a very good looking man. shaped to be annoyed.
After the death of President Coolidge she responded "How could they tell?"
She speaks seven languages and she can't say no in any of them.
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Fri, September 9, 2005 - 7:45 PMOf COURSE I have a crush on you, jrat! Who DOESN'T?
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Sat, September 10, 2005 - 5:47 PM
Did you watch Great Rock And Roll Swindle to see him crotch naked?
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Re: My Ten Favorite Dorothy Parker Quotes
Mon, September 12, 2005 - 4:00 AMExcellent point, AXJ. I know I do and I can think of a couple other gals who definitely have crushes on the dreamy jrat, too.
I've never seen Steve Jones, though I listen to him often.
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